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J. HOAGLAND.

WATCH CHAIN BAR- No. 299,071.. Patented May 20,1884.

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WATCH-CHAIN BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,071, dated May 20, 1884:.

Application filed November 19, 1883.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, J OHN HOAGLAND, of the city and county of Providence, State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVatch-Ohain Bars; and I here-. bydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and

had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Chain-bars for watch-chains have heretofore been provided with a pencil or with a toothpick, and such a pencil or tooth-pick was heretoforeinserted into a tube which was secured near its center to the watch-chain.

The present invention is an improvement on such prior structures; and it consists in-the peculiar and novel construction of the pencilcase, by which the pencil may be extended beyond the bar without detaching the pencilcase, and when detached a tooth-pick may be projected from the pencil-case, as will bemore fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved watch-chain bar, the pencil-case being inclosed therein, and the pencil and tooth-pick retracted within the inclosed case. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the bar, showing the pencilcase in elevation inclosed therein and the pencil projected from the case. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the pencil-case removed from the bar, the pencil being retracted within the case and the tooth-pick extended therefrom. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the pencil-case, both pencil and tooth-pick being extended.

In the drawings, a is the supporting-loop, by which the bar is connected with the watchchain. Z is the tube forming the bar. 0 is the cap closing one end of the tube, the opposite end being open. (2 is the pencil-case, made of such diameter as to form a friction-tight fit when placed into the tube 1). e is the penciltip. f is the cap corresponding with the fixed cap 0. 'It is placed on the pencil-case and turns thereon, so as to operate the screw by (No model.)

which the pencil is projected from or drawn into the pencil-case. g is the tooth-pick, and h the tube into which the toothpick is drawn when not in use. The mechanism by which the tooth-pick and the pencil are moved inward and outward is the usual and well-known 5o spiral groove and pin used in all such devices.

The pencil may be extended from its case, without removing the latter from within the bar, by grasping the bar I) and turning the cap f. When the tooth-pick is to be used, the case cl h is drawn out of the bar. and by turning the two members d h of the case in opposite directions the toothpick is extended. When the case is out of the bar, the pencil may be extended. The pencil and tooth-pick are eX- tended independently of each other.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a hollow watchchain bar having one open and one closed end, of a combined pencil and tooth-pick case composed of two parts arranged to turn upon each other, and adapted for insertion into and removal from the said bar, as described.

2. The combination, with a hollow watch- .70 chain bar having one closed and one open end, of a pencil and tooth-pick case formed in two sections, one of which carries a turning cap, and adapted to be inserted removably within the said bar, the tooth-pick being operated by '75 turning the sections upon each other, as described.

3. The combination, with the tubular bar I), having one of its ends closed by the cap 0, of the case d h, formed in two sections, and arranged to fit tightly within the bar and provided with the cap f, and containing a pencil,

e, and tooth-pick, g, as described.

. JOHN HOAGLAND.

Witnesses:

J. A. MILLER, J12, M. F. BLIGH. 

